OldSwiss
Veteran
Hi I am from Switzerland and started about half a year ago with (speed)solving.
It began with my partents in law who bought some cubes for my sister's kids, but no one could solve it.
As a kid of the 80's I had a cube as a kid but could never solve more than one face (i guess not even with the correct sides, because i never realized that this was important:rolleyes
I've learned it with a beginner method which involved sune, U-Perm and A-Perm.
I was very happy to solve it by myself but always saw methods to do it quicker and so i started to buy myself some better cubes, learn CFOP, learn full PLL, then full OLL...
As my username an title says I'm already a little bit older. With 46 I still hope to be in the first half of my life but compared the most cubers I could be their father or even grandfather.
So I'm a little limited with my old fingers, brain and eyes and probably will never get very fast but I like my new hobby a lot and cube a lot to get better.
Usually I do about an hour per day of seriuos cubing with smartcube timed solves, to learn new algs and improve some other stuff.
I addition to that i cube every free minute just for fun, but without timer and plans.
Due to limited competitions in my area I've neve be to a comp yet but in my daily solves I fight the 30 seconds barrier currently.
On a good day I can do a row of sub30 solves and get a sub 30 AO5 or even AO12, but my AO100 is still a little above the 30.
My best singles were a couple of 20:xx or 21:xx, but sub 25 times are still quite rare.
As for most cubers in this stage, my main weakness is lookahead and the fact that I can't solve harder crosses without looking for the last pieces.
Sometimes I still fail completly with stupid stuff like wrong crosses or dropping the cube in the middle of an alg o_O
For 2x2 I do ortega in around 10 seconds, for 4x4 I'm usually between 2 and 3 Minutes and for 5x5 something between 5 and 10 Minutes.
Are there any other older or swiss/german cubers here?
It began with my partents in law who bought some cubes for my sister's kids, but no one could solve it.
As a kid of the 80's I had a cube as a kid but could never solve more than one face (i guess not even with the correct sides, because i never realized that this was important:rolleyes
I've learned it with a beginner method which involved sune, U-Perm and A-Perm.
I was very happy to solve it by myself but always saw methods to do it quicker and so i started to buy myself some better cubes, learn CFOP, learn full PLL, then full OLL...
As my username an title says I'm already a little bit older. With 46 I still hope to be in the first half of my life but compared the most cubers I could be their father or even grandfather.
So I'm a little limited with my old fingers, brain and eyes and probably will never get very fast but I like my new hobby a lot and cube a lot to get better.
Usually I do about an hour per day of seriuos cubing with smartcube timed solves, to learn new algs and improve some other stuff.
I addition to that i cube every free minute just for fun, but without timer and plans.
Due to limited competitions in my area I've neve be to a comp yet but in my daily solves I fight the 30 seconds barrier currently.
On a good day I can do a row of sub30 solves and get a sub 30 AO5 or even AO12, but my AO100 is still a little above the 30.
My best singles were a couple of 20:xx or 21:xx, but sub 25 times are still quite rare.
As for most cubers in this stage, my main weakness is lookahead and the fact that I can't solve harder crosses without looking for the last pieces.
Sometimes I still fail completly with stupid stuff like wrong crosses or dropping the cube in the middle of an alg o_O
For 2x2 I do ortega in around 10 seconds, for 4x4 I'm usually between 2 and 3 Minutes and for 5x5 something between 5 and 10 Minutes.
Are there any other older or swiss/german cubers here?
